With some help from a brief delay and the international dateline, a group of airplane passengers became unlikely time travelers – and double New Year's revelers.

Hawaiian Airlines flight 446 took off from Auckland, New Zealand, at 12:05 a.m. local time on Jan. 1 following a 10-minute delay. The flight landed in Honolulu – which is 23 hours behind New Zealand – at 10:16 a.m. on Dec. 31.

"Because of an unexpected delay," he wrote. "Hawaiian Airlines flight took off in 2018 and will land in 2017.

Commenters reliably had fun with Sweeney's tweet, with many hoping "Back to the Future" is now a reality – "but still no flying cars" – and another getting into deep physics by describing it as "Schrodinger's plane."